Veteran's Day

Some fresh frames

(11/07/2008 Spring Hill) Rachel Benes, 4, plays with a parachute at the teddy bear picnic at the West Hernando/Staffordene T. Foggia Branch Library in Spring Hill Friday morning. The teddy bear picnic is an annual event sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hernando County. The event drew a crowd of over 100 parents and children aged 2-5.


(11/05/2008 Brooksville) Elbert Elliott, 68, of Brooksville, talks about his reactions to the election in front of S.O.S. Famous Barbecue on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Brooksville Wednesday afternoon. Elliott talked about how inspiring it was to see Obama win after living through segregation and watching the civil rights movement unfold.


(11/03/2008 Spring Hill) Elizabeth Townsend, community relations coordinator for the Hernando County Supervisor of Elections, carries a voting machine to a precinct coordinator's vehicle Monday morning behind the Westside Government Center on Forest Oaks Blvd. in Spring Hill.


(11/05/2008 Brooksville) Chuck Benjamen, with the Hernando County Hazmat Team, supervises firefighters during a training exercise in south Brooksville Wednesday. The exercise put more than 100 hours of classroom training to the test, and was one of the firefighters last requirements to complete before taking the state test to be certified as HAZMAT technicians and be on the Hernando County team. The team is comprised of firefighters from Hernando County Fire Rescue, Spring Hill Fire Rescue, and the Brooksville Fire Department.


(10/29/2008 Brooksville) David Murdock and his girlfriend, Jordan Rolph, comfort each other while Hernando County firefighters work to put out a fire in Murdock's home on Terrace Way in Brooksville Wednesday morning. "It sounded like firecrackers going off in the middle bedroom," Nick Shillinger, Murdock's roommate, said, "We tried to put the fire out, but it just spread after we opened the door."